An interesting programme which I’d thought might have attracted more people. When did we last hear Janáček's piano music? And I’d have thought Schumann would have brought them in too. But I reveal my prejudices. There are three Romances in Schumann’s little Op 28 set. Only the second is familiar: a very charming piece that I probably encountered in a piano album when I was young. Chris Greenslade, who studied with Richard Mapp at the Massey University Conservatorium of Music and later at the Royal Northern College of Music and is now based at Waikato, opened his recital with the...  Read More »